The child poverty rate for all U.S. large cities is 30.6 percent which is substantially higher than the 19.9 percent poverty rate for all children in the United States in 2013.

Several factors contribute to the growth in child poverty in a given city, but some things are common among the group of cities. Older industrial cities, like Detroit and Cleveland, suffered a sharp contraction of their manufacturing industries and related job losses in the course of the Great Recession. Others, like Las Vegas and a number of cities in California and Florida, were hit by the collapse of local housing markets and contraction of the construction industry.
The paper was released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP), a research center based at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
“Many Americans, even policymakers, seem unaware of the shocking prevalence of child poverty in many of our nation's most important and iconic cities. Reducing child poverty is critical to the social and economic health of cities, now and in the future", said Curtis Skinner, PhD, director of Family Economic Security at NCCP.
Source-Medindia